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Most of the 463/468.XXX are allocated/granted to the business radio service and particularly the medical related entities. The 464/469.XXX are allocated to the business radio services, and most of the 465 MHz freqs are the repeater input/mobile transmit part of the 460/465 MHz paired freqs. for the Public Safety entities. The GMRS license only authorizes you to transmit on the freqs allocated for the Part 95, Subpart E part of the spectrum from 462/467.550 MHz to 462/467.725 MHz.

The Santiago Peak does have an output tone. They have two separate output tones and the output tone will depend on which input tone you use.

There are several sources for Motorola and Kenwood programming software and cables. All you have to do is google/yahoo it. Blue 49ers, Twoway Radio Parts, and eBay come to mind and there are more sources. Recently, Motorola stop supporting or providing resources for discontinued model radios such as the XTS & XTL and other older model radio programming software. This means they no longer pursue violators for unauthorized users and resellers for possessing and reselling, and violating a condition of their software license agreement. If your base station is only for accessing a nearby repeater or two and you don't care about having a quality radio than your Cheap Chinese Radio (CCR) will work just fine. In a mobile environment you'll more than likely end up wishing you had more radio features than any CCR has to offer such as Radio Zones/Banks of various channels, Talkaround, PL Defeat/Monitor Feature, Multiple Scan Lists, and in some areas some repeater owners are starting to implement/use MDC1200 PT-T ID to validate permission to access their repeater(s). You won't find those features in a CCR and there is no such thing as a quality radio compared to a Part 90 Motorola or Kenwood radio. In most cases, going cheap isn't always saving money in the long run and without some technical and operational user difficulties. It is your decision to avoid the headaches and frustrations now or later.

Take a peek at DX Engineering.

By any chance, did you look into the Multi-Terrain Lift Kit for that Camry that Walmart or maybe it was Amazon had a special promo on including the installation?

The 470-512 MHz part of the spectrum is called the "T" Band because that part of the spectrum was originally reserved/allocated for TV Channels 14-20. However, the T-Band freqs may be granted for some LMR use, primarily Public Safety, and some specialized mobile radio systems, only in large metropolitan regions such as Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, New York, etc. Back in the early 80s, The Los Angeles Sheriff Department was using Lowband VHF freqs (39 MHz) and was in dire need of additional freqs to expand their radio system. There were no VHF and UHF freqs available so they initiated action to acquire spectrum in the lower UHF TV channels because they were not being used at that time in the LA area. The Los Angeles Police Department was also in the same situation with their VHF Highband system. The LAPD also joined the effort with the LA Sheriff which started the reallocation of the lower UHF TV channels be used on a shared basis for public safety agencies in certain metro areas in the country. The FCC granted the LA Sheriff use of the 480 Freqs, the LAPD use of the 500 MHz, and the use of 470-480 MHz freqs for Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR) systems. Thus, the T-Band was born for LMR use in the subject metro areas of the country.

After the system I was involved with during the narrowband changeover, we did not have any issues as most have described with their experiences. All of our systems were designed with overlapping coverage for redundancy with simulcast, and voting receivers. There could have been some propagation differences but it didn't impact operations. Even the difference in the audio quality was negligible. I guess when you use quality radios you don't experience those issues.

I remember them well back in the Micor days. I use to carry a box of various reeds around and change them out along with the channel elements (crystals) in my company car when I traveled from one zone to a different zone.

I don't know. I don't own a non-type accepted GMRS radio. All my radios are Motorola mobiles and portables and one Kenwood mobile. Oh, I forgot, I do own a Midland MXT500 which I never have used.

That would be the Vibrasponder Reed, the bigger Reed of the two reeds.

The DTR600 is a 30 Channel radio and the DTR700 is a 50 channel radio. I finally received my DTR700 radio and I was impressed with the performance in distance and the audio quality of the DTR700 radio. I was able to receive an user with a DLR1060 radio about 2 miles away. Last weekend I was using a remote speaker mic with an earpiece and sometimes a dual-muff boom mic headset with an in-line PT-T switch and they worked perfectly. I am able to use my headsets with both the XTS5000 radios and the DTR700 radios by switching out the adapter cables.

More and more repeater owners are starting to require their users to identify and/or get repeater access by utilizing the MDC1200 PT-T feature to control the access to their repeaters. So, better get use to the squawking.

It appears that 99.9% of the GMRS repeaters throughout the country operate on wideband channels. The only exception to the norm is the Arizona GMRS Repeater Club which operates all four of their repeaters, and nine tactical channels on narrowband channels and without any issues in regards to audio quality. Personally, I would like to see the FCC mandate that the GMRS channel operate on narrowband channels. If it works for Part 90 radio services it can work for Part 95 radio services. Narrowband emissions help facilitate spectrum efficiency and minimize adjacent channel interference.

Has the external antenna been swept to determine center/resonate freq of the antenna and if the cable is good or not? Improperly tuned or mismatched resonate antenna can be worst than the portable antenna inside a car and the car almost can be considered as a Faraday cage

Taking a test where a person studies the answers to the test questions does not demonstrate a person's proficiency and proves a person's knowledge on the subject matter. It only proves a person has a good memory skill. So, what does that prove and why it should be basis for qualifying a person and issue them a Amateur Radio Service License is beyond me. Testing for an Amateur license is a joke and makes no legitimate sense. That is one radio service I will not ever be part of or having any interest in. My previous career was involved around radio communications for over 40 years. I have enjoyed the subject of two-way radio communications. I got my GMRS license back in the early 90s when the license issued were mobile license that had three letters beginning with a "K" and 4 numbers. GMRS appeared to be interesting at the time because it was UHF and allowed the use of a repeater. There wasn't many users and you never heard any traffic on the single frequency you were licensed for and the 462.675 freq pair was reserved for React and emergency use only. I was very ingenious on solving radio communications problems and developed and invented solutions to those problems. Unfortunately, being a government employee it was illegal for me to use those resources to parlay those inventions into millions of dollars for myself. So, some companies took opportunities and did make millions and millions off my solutions and inventions.

Paid member to what and which repeater are you seeking tone info for?

In addition to Astron, Tripp Lite, you might want to look into the Powerwerx 28 Amp Power Supply. I've been using this power supply for my three base units for sometime and it's been doing great. Also, I was surprised on the physical size of this unit being small and it never seems to get hot. https://powerwerx.com/variable-power-supply-digital-meters-30amp There is no such thing of anything being quality and cheap. Anyways, cheap is relative. You get what you pay for.

It appears that the original poster wants to use a MURS freq as an Operational Fixed link to remotely to remotely control another station.

If you're using the control head with the round CAN type connectors I can program it for you. All I ask is you provide a return shipping label. If you want it programmed, I'll heed you'd email address so I can send you some files for the programming worksheets that I use.

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You'll find the Midland MXT26 Antenna, is a very good antenna for GMRS freqs with excellent VSWRs. Other good mobile antennae are the Larsens and Lairds but, they need to be trimmed/tuned to your radio as a complete system. If you want good results it's best to use professional grade antennae and not amateur/hobbyist grade antennae.

My only experience with Kenwood is a TK880 Mobile and its been very positive. I don't have any experience with the Kenwood portable but I have to assume the quality of their portables have to be as good as their mobiles. I use the Kenwood TK880 in one of my cars that can not accommodate a radio installation because of the physical size and the radio will accommodate multiple programming zones with as many channels you need in any zone. Also, the programming is not that difficult and the software is easy to acquire. One clue in the quality of the radio is the support in the model line by both the manufacturer and the after-market suppliers for accessories such as the batteries and audio components. I'm more of a Motorola guy. I have the XTL5000 and XTL2500 mobile radios in my other cars and I have a large selection of various XTS5000 portables, along with the XTS3000, XTS2500, XTS1500 series, and various Astro Sabers, and numerous JEDI series portables. I don't have any Waris radios but I have used them briefly in my previous life and have found them very reliable and easy to use. The programming software for the Waris radio line is becoming easier to acquire these days. If you're in the market for a Waris radio, you have to be careful with the channel capacities. Some portables appear to be 128 channel radio but some of them on the market are only 16 channel radios. I'm not sure if the mobiles are in the same situation.

A couple weeks ago, I mentioned about the performance of my glass-mount antenna and the fact that it is not tunable. Again, I made another second mistake in life by stating incorrect information. I stated that the Larsen Glass-Mount Antenna did not have a pot to adjust/tune the antenna like the yesteryear glass-mount antennae. In fact, it is an adjustable antenna. Since, I didn't notice an adjusting pot screw on the side of the coupler, I assume that it was not tunable. Just the other day, I noticed that the rod was being held by a set screw thus, the rod can be trimmed for better VSWRs. And to my surprise, and after 4 months that my Bird 43 and several slugs were being held hostage by Bird Instruments for recalibration, it appeared on my door step a couple days ago so I decided to trim the antenna this morning. I did notice some difference in the readings before and after the recalibration. Today, as it turned out, the VSWR for a 467 MHz freq was 1.12:1 and for the 462 MHz freq the VSWR was 1.23:1 throwing 57 watts at it. At the lower power setting (24 Watts) the reflected power barely flinched the needle. So, I adjusted the transmitter high power setting and ended up with 49.7 watts. So, I have to say "NOT TOO SHABBY"

Is there a designated CB channel for off-roading?

Typical CCR with the usual problems they inherit.